Example sentences of "it [verb] [be] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson 's work merits this special position both because it has been influential in this country — Bankowski and Mungham ( 1976 ) use it , for example , and it routinely appears on ‘ English Legal System ’ booklists — and also because he explicitly takes issue with ideologically determined empiricist and common sense definitions of professionals in terms of the ‘ traits ’ which they possess . |
| 2 | For the past nine months it has been involved in a nightly Royal Mail operation out of the airport . |
| 3 | It is also clear that current merger policy has been somewhat permissive , for while it has been effective in preventing a limited number of individually important mergers , it has had little impact upon the level of merger activity as a whole . |
| 4 | For 15 years it has been illegal in the U8A to produce a new car without a three-way catalytic converter . |
| 5 | Secondly , it distorts the history of philosophy by assuming that it has been unchanging in its preoccupations and conceptualisations , which it clearly has not . |
| 6 | But whilst the concern might , therefore , have been largely misplaced , it has been useful in fostering a re-examination of the way schools and LEAs maintain discipline amongst pupils and in prompting fresh research into the nature of misbehaviour in schools . |
| 7 | To conclude , in order to examine an area which is rarely focused upon in itself , it has been necessary in this chapter artificially to abstract the object , considering it in rather universalistic terms , and in relation to a perhaps overdrawn dichotomy with language . |
| 8 | Recently it has been well-aired in this country through broadcasts and festivals ; enough to form an initial overall view . |
| 9 | Whatever else it is , though , it has been successful in conventional business terms , although not as successful this year as the table suggests . |
| 10 | It has been beneficial in that : |
| 11 | Here , there is further anomaly , for it has been possible in the past for Anglican clergymen to circumvent the disqualification by virtue of the Clerical Disabilities Act 1870 , whilst others can not . |
| 12 | A statement issued by Glaxo says : ’ The company has consistently denied it has been negligent in any way in relation to the supply of Myodil , it voluntarily withdrew the product in 1987 , as it had been superceded by new products and technology . ’ |
| 13 | It has been fashionable in the last twenty years to suggest that there was in ancient history a utopian matriarchy . |
| 14 | Ever since John Marshall , its first chief justice , discovered that the court had the ability to overturn legislation that did not accord with the constitution , it has been indispensable in bolstering the central tenet of American democracy : that no grant of governmental power to those who exercise it for the time being is limitless . |
| 15 | It has been well-used in writing this book . |
| 16 | It has been true in parts for a period of British politics but it is not the theoretical key to unlock the essence of things as was once thought to be the case . |
| 17 | Despite the fact that this guitar is only days old , the neck has a vintage feel to it , as though it has been active in the field for thirty years . |
| 18 | The criticisms have fallen into certain categories , one general line being that the service has failed to adopt modern methods of management , that it has been slow in understanding the use of statistical information and of specialized knowledge of the social services , and that it does not think ahead enough or organize its planning on a sufficiently systematic basis , in part because officials spend too much time on routine departmental work . |
| 19 | 4 Reasonableness in the public interest It has been common in the past to underestimate the importance of public policy or the public interest in the restraint of trade doctrine . |
| 20 | The Red Poll 's greatest successes overseas are in Jamaica , Brazil and other Latin American countries where it has been instrumental in the creation of types bred for local conditions , such as the Jamaica Red , Pitangueiras ( Brazil ) , La Velasquez ( Colombia ) , Senepol ( US Virgin Islands ) and possibly the Romosinuano ( Colombia ) . |
| 21 | It has been instrumental in rescuing cats out of trees who might otherwise have starved or drowned , ’ a local resident tells me . |
| 22 | It has been lucky in its track record , having apparently never had the necessity of reinstating a completely failed assignment . |
| 23 | Right , oh yes it 's got a , a lot of discrepancies , but the point is that the discrepancies it has are explicable in terms of what the discrepancies were trying to hide and correct and to that extent it 's a bit like psychoanalysing an individual patient . |
| 24 | Sparc wannabe , California start-up Integrix Inc , has a graphics accelerator board , the SGX 120 , which it says is identical in resolution to Sun Microsystems Inc 's 1280 x 1024 resolution GX+ board , but only requires one Sbus slot : it 's priced at $2,750 with availability later this month . |
| 25 | We can apply the test to the technical and technological subjects , and not only those , but the professional subjects also ; and the boundary line will run now on this side , now on that ; but the things that it divides are different in kind , and only on one side of that line lies what we ought to allow to be education . |
| 26 | But narrative on the scale which it demands is impossible in a book like this . |
| 27 | Er erm we think the nine thousand seven hundred dwellings based on one hundred percent migration for the Greater York area is the appropriate strategic approach erm for the Greater York area , the County Council does not see the need for any policy intervention in terms of migration , in respect of Greater York in the way it feels is necessary in respect of er of four other districts . |
| 28 | In non-life insurance — such as fire , accident and motor — it means being involved in statistical research underlying the assessment of increasingly complicated risks . |
| 29 | Patrick too was watching the shops go by , remembering the last time he had walked down them , it had been early in 1916 , and he had gone out with Mickey — God Rest Him — to buy his mother an Easter gift . |
| 30 | After 1986 parliamentary concern shifted towards the security service or MI5 , particularly because of allegations that it had been involved in attempts to smear elected politicians during the 1970s . |